Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
